[/left][right]Today, my maternity leave is only three weeks away, three tiny little weeks I’m going to pack full of writing and recipe making and coding. These past few weeks I’ve been living so far ahead of myself, constantly worried about future travel plans and packing and moving and running out of time before baby gets here, but after this weekend, this lovely weekend where my parents’ have been absolute troopers and helped us out so much, I finally feel able to live in the now, like I can finally breathe again. The next weeks I will be hanging onto the present, because Jostein and I, we will only get these weeks. We are in week 35 (out of 40) of this pregnancy, and in just over a month someone else than us will be joining us and affecting this house just as much as we do, and I need and want to take this time to enjoy this time just with him. Even though we have to do lists as long as people in the house and at work, this is very much the top priority. The plan this far is to:

– Pick lilacs to put in the beautiful Klong vase my sister gave us for the wedding

– Test new popcorn recipes

– Bake and cook things to put in the freezer and talk about the life ahead of us when we’ll need a stocked freezer with burger buns and tomato sauce

– Watch all episodes of Peaky Blinders

– Write a long list of all the things this baby has been along for the ride on, and hide it somewhere safe until we have the time to do something special with it

– Bring some cold soda upstairs to sort our books into colors, again, and into the new giant book shelf

– Finish painting the bedroom floor and celebrate by finally using our brand new sheets

– Make a little film of a completely normal day, where I film and he makes the music

– Serve breakfast in bed

– Play cards outside when there’s no wind and take turns winning

– Do a dinner roulette where one of us cooks the main and the other makes dessert and everything is a secret[/right]